https://vimeo.com/92611906
A first-look clip from Olaf Tyaransen’s short Don’t You Know Who I Am?
Starring Larry Love [from Alabama 3]. Contains NSFW language.
Available to buy NOW through the Distrify player (below).
Don’t You Know Who I Am? (Facebook)
Previously: For Your Consideration: Don’t You Know Who I Am?
The commonwealth debate.
Not as mad as it sounds.
Senior Conservative MP Michael Fabricant said yesterday that the proposal “is not so mad as it might at first seem. If a country like the Republic of Ireland joined the Commonwealth, what greater message could be sent to countries facing political upheaval and disputes on the other side of the world than an ancient country who had drawn a line under parts of its past, whilst promoting its future on the best parts of its heritage?” Mr Fabricant wrote on a website yesterday.
DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson welcomed the suggestion. “We have long supported the idea that the Republic of Ireland should rejoin the Commonwealth,” he said. “After all, there are many republics including India who are a part of the Commonwealth and don’t feel in any sense that their sovereignty or independence is compromised.”
More public holidays (including July 12).
What’s not to like?
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Following LIVELY discussions on cycling in the city, alternative spaces, immigration, housing and homelessness Banter’s Living for the City series on living, working and playing in Dublin in the 21st century continues next Wednesday…
…with a look at how the media covers the capital.
The panel: Ian Lamont (editor, Totally Dublin), Kate Coleman (editor, Le Cool Dublin), Niall Harbison (Lovin Dublin) and James Reddy (Rabble).
FIGHT!
At the Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin on Wednesday April 30. Doors open 6pm, FREE (invite list here).
Jim Carroll of Banter adds:
“We’ve also moved into the podcasting business with a new one every week from the back-catalogue of talks we’ve done to date. You’ll find the list of podcasts, including chats with Fr Peter McVerry, Donal Ryan, Alan McGee, Maeve O’Rourke from the Justice for Magdalenes campaign, David Gray, Eimear McBride, Paul Morley, Michael Moynihan, John Grant etc. Here”
You may recall a post from last week in relation to barrister Dominic McGinn, SC, who is reviewing how members of the Garda Serious Crime Unit investigated the 1985 murder of Fr Niall Molloy in a house near Clara, Co. Offaly.
The post dealt with questions put to Justice Minister Alan Shatter in the Dáil, in relation to journalist Gemma O’Doherty, whose investigative work led to the case being reopened by the Garda Serious Crime Unit in 2012.
Minister Shatter was asked if Mr McGinn will interview Ms O’Doherty as part of his investigation. Minister Shatter said he wouldn’t.
Ms O’Doherty wrote in the Irish Daily Mail yesterday how the terms of reference for Mr McGinn’s investigation preclude him from reinterviewing witnesses, including a man named Gerry North – who claims an eye witness to the murder told him a series of revelations about the killing.
In yesterday’s report [not online], Ms O’Doherty wrote:
[Mr North] and many others close to the case, believe the eyewitness was silenced by certain officers in the weeks after the murder. Mr North gave evidence to the gardaí that the eyewitness told him ‘a large number of people’ were present at the murder including a Fianna Fáil politician who was a household name, and a man from Kilkenny.
Mr North also alleges that the eyewitness said Fr Molloy was beaten up downstairs but that his body was carried upstairs and left in the Flynn’s marital bedroom to give the appearance of a sex scandal. The identity of blood found on the bannisters of the stairs in the country manor has never been revealed by gardaí.
Mr North was also told that Richard Flynn, who stood trial and was acquitted for the manslaughter of the priest, was not the killer.
He said the eyewitness told him that when he was interviewed by gardaí in 1985, he said they were more nervous than he was in case he would ‘say the wrong thing, which would be the truth’.
Previously: Not Gathering Evidence
“…The Toilet Tent comes with a portable loo and a pretty toilet tent to protect modesty!..”
Greg Deringer writes:
“Sylvanian Families are getting TOO detailed…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9djBssNgzE
The Illum (€1089 on pre-order) from Lytro – launched this week – is a light field or ‘plenoptic’ camera that captures all the light in a given scene, giving all manner of ‘3D’ options, like selecting the focal points of a picture after you’ve taken it.
They’ve been mucking about with the technology since the summer of 2011 and developed a predecessor to the current model back in 2012.
This one however, has a 40 (as opposed to 11) megaray sensor and is targeted at ‘creative professionals’ (you know who you are.)
The technology is also the focus of an app by Lytro that allows 3D picture viewing, not to mention ‘light field movie capture’ enabling focus switching within an animation.
(H/T: John Gallen)
Fiach Kelly, in the Irish Times, reports this morning that Environment Minister Phil Hogan has sought and received permission to obtain money from the Government in order for Irish Water to pay 1,100 voluntary redundancies.
Mr Kelly reports:
While the new utility believes it will need about 1,700 staff, it has signed service level agreements with the 34 local authorities who run the Republic’s water and waste water infrastructure. These legal agreements, which run up to 2026, involve about 4,300 local authority staff, whose cost is to be paid by Irish Water.
However, Mr Hogan’s memorandum provides more detail on the redundancies planned to bring this number down. They will cost some €39 million, which will be provided over a period between 2015 and 2016.
Irish Water gets funding for 1,100 redundancies (Irish Times)
Previously: Thicker Than Uisce
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Behold CATable – created by Ruan Hao for Hangzhou and Hong Kong-based architecture firm LYCS – a wooden table honeycombed with holes and passages where cats can lounge and disport themselves while you work.
